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You know when you're feeling your blood sugar drop and you become spacey and flighty? Yes, I know that feeling, even after being diabetic for 29 years. I still have those moments where my sugar drops so quickly it's a little too late sometimes. These moments have been coined by my boyfriend as...

Hi, Questions from a Type 1 Diabetic: I just starting rowing this year and am absolutely loving it to the point where if I can get good enough I might want to row in college. Its unlike any other sport I ever played and now that I've fallen in love with it, I don't think I can handle if my parents...

Anyone into Triathlon? I'm on a team composed of triathletes all with type 1 diabetes, called Triabetes.

I finally got the guts up to start playing roller derby with my local team. I have been skating with the team for two months and I really love it, but have come up with questions that I have had a hard time finding the answers to. Any help would be appreciated! I am 31 years old, T1 for 24 years. I use...

I've had my first experience (and I hope my last) with a hypoglycemic seizure at night. Luckily, my partner is well aware of the situation and was able to call EMS, etc. However, I'm now terrified of sleeping. My new CGM will be here Monday, but until I trust that thing, and even if I do, I won't...

I'm not sure how many of your boyfriends or girlfriends or husbands or wives worry about your blood sugars as much as my boyfriend does, but I'm hoping there's at least one person that can help me or give me advice about what to do. :( My boyfriend freaks out when I don't answer my phone...

Sunday, April 17, 2011 9 O'Clock .... 9 O'Clock last night... The approach sounded a bit like an " Orignal " (pronounced "Ori-G-Nahl", a large ungainly moose ~ a vocab word attained from forced-family-fun while playing Balderdash ). The quick, loud, stumble down the stairs...

35 nuts little loe time for some juice

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 A Shared Moment... Last evening... after dinner... we went on a family walk to take Oscar to "do his business." I was bringing up the rear. I believe I had the baggie for the said "business" product. Bridget was yammering on and on and on and on and on ( an...

Saturday, March 26, 2011 It Was "Me"...Now, It Is "He"... As I looked for Joe's exit from the school building after the dismissal bell yesterday, I was slightly perplexed that I didn't see his jiggly-jowls and his exuberant gait come bounding toward me in his customary "...

Photo by Cyndi Freeman The bulky, clanking, clamoring dog vomit doused carrier was hogging up the passenger seat. We had to go get Oscar from the groomer right after I picked the kids up from school yesterday. What does the carrier have to do with me, the kids, or hell type 1 diabetes management you...

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 "Shooting-UP" The Sugar Taken this morning "Please just give me the shot, Mom." These words muttered by a pale, sleepy, I-have-been-fighting-a-low-for-over-an-hour-Joe. This was last night. This was about an hour after dinner, about an hour after a "softer"...

I had a "clever title" of "Oh NO, Not Chicken Marguerite On My 550-Thread Count Sheets!" ... and ... somehow I wanted to add into the title that a massive blizzard hit and there are a couple of neighboring counties declaring a state of emergency. You get the picture? Can you begin...

My daughter (3 years old and diagnosed in Novemeber of this year) and a really strange bout last night. She came into my room, lied down with me for a bit. When I told her we had to back to her room, she told me she was "wiggly" (her feelings of a low). I checked her blood (4.2 - not "low...

81 . i run low alot . :/

Yesterday I was reminded once again of how aggravating diabetes can be and just how much it impacts all of life. Recently, I've been having the rebound effect, so I'll go from being in the mid-200s all day to dropping into the 40s and 50s in as little as an hour. There is nothing worse than the...

Dont you all hate it when all of a sudden you guys fell low and you have to leave in the middle of something important. when this happens to me it is just embarrassing to walk up to the teacher in the front of the class and tell him you need to leave. whats even worse is when he/she calls someone up...

i usually go low in my art class every other day in high school since im in 10th grade. its around 11:15 ish. and i usually go high like to 240, 300 AFTER i excercise. meanwhile, my school nurse always tells me that everyone else whose diabetic in the high school usually goes LOW after exercising. pretty...